Linky Goodness, April 16

By Jordan McCollum on April 16, 2008

All kinds of good stuff in Linky Goodness today!

Jupiter Research reports that Blended Search Increases Your Visibility. But what I get from the numbers is that you’re more likely to click on results in blended search than “siloed” search—even if the siloed search is in the exact media you’re looking for.
GoCompare was blacklisted from Google earlier this year. Hitwise takes a look at their recovery.
The Wall Street Journal is constantly evolving—online. paidContent says their site is getting a major redesign that’s already begun in some sections. Meanwhile, some print journalists remain optimistic, though SEW thinks the numbers are skewed.
Google AdSense for Domains runs on some typosquatting and cybersquatting domains, it’s true. And now a federal court has ruled that Google can be sued over these domains. Will the ruling stand up?
If you’re like me, you’re the ‘M’ of a private, multinational espionage enterprise, and here’s the news you’ve been waiting for to communicate quickly with your operatives: BigString unveils self-destructing IM service. Allegedly, no computers are destroyed in the process.
iCrossing follows up with its How America Searches Election ’08 report (original released in July 2007). (via)

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Piper Says:

April 17th, 2008 at 7:13 am

That’s an interesting study as far as the blended search results are concerned. The company I work for puts a lot of time and effort into ranking for both video and images, so we see a huge amount of traffic from both (it doesn’t convert too well, but I won’t complain about extra free traffic). I have to wonder when more businesses are going to start catching on.

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Keylogger Guy Says:

April 17th, 2008 at 8:36 am

I didn’t knew that i can assure a lot of traffic just through blended search abilities, so i think it’s a good point to begin earning some additional visitors.
Web Marketing Man Says:

April 17th, 2008 at 9:50 am

The market for video is wide open, lets face it, us humans like to look at fun, moving stuff rather than boring text. Gaining entry requires a whole new set of skills though, that is the reason why we haven’t explored it at all. However one has to evolve and will definitely be paying close attention to the ins and outs of creating a suitable campaign.
Futon-Matt Says:

April 17th, 2008 at 9:51 am

I was impressed that GoCompare started to recover so quickly.